Description
In Manil Suri’s debut novel, Vishnu, the odd-job man, lies dying on the staircase of an apartment building while around him unfold the lives of its inhabitants: warring housewives, lovesick teenagers, a grieving widower. In a fevered state, Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and wonders if he might actually be the god Vishnu, guardian of the entire universe.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Manil Suri
Published: 06/01/2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393342826
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.40″ W
About the Author
Suri, Manil: – Manil Suri is the internationally acclaimed author of The Death of Vishnu and other books. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages and received several honors, including winning the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and lives with his husband in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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